“How could you let a girl like that go?”: Ryan Gosling Almost Got Slapped For Breaking Up With a Marvel Star
Both Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams have had successful careers as actors. The former is best known for his roles in the films Crazy, Stupid, Love, La La Land, Blade Runner 2049, and other films. The latter is best known for portraying Regina George, the Mean Girl, in Mean Girls and other films like About Time, The Vow, Southpaw, Doctor Strange, etc.
But if the two actors are remembered together at all, it must be for their outstanding performances in the 2004 film The Notebook, in which they co-starred as Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. The same-titled novel by Nicholas Sparks served as the basis for the film. However, Gosling and McAdams have a history together because they did begin dating after the filming, but while filming they did not like each other.
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Ryan Gosling wanted Rachel McAdams to be kicked off The Notebook
Where the audience saw love between Allie and Noah, things between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams weren’t exactly lovely while they were portraying the cult-classic movie. According to reports, things weren’t exactly what one can call smooth between the two of them, and the director, Nick Cassavetes, recalled that Gosling wanted the actress to be replaced.
“They were really not getting along one day on set. Really not. And Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick come here.’ And he’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, ‘Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this.’”
The director further described that the actors would engage in yelling matches behind the scenes and he took them to a room where they hatched their problems out and then the rest of the film was ‘smoother sailing’. He also said, “I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open.”
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams’ relationship surprise
What surprised the fans around was the fact that the two stars started dating each other after they were done filming and their relationship ran its course from 2005 to 2007. Gosling and McAdams won the award for Best Kiss at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards and went ahead to create a pop culture moment exactly like The Notebook.
The MTV Movie Awards moment in 2005 cemented the couple and a horde of fans who were committed enough to support them even after they split up in 2007. Gosling claimed in a 2007 interview with GQ that despite their best efforts, they were ultimately forced to call it quits.
The actor said, “I mean, God bless The Notebook. It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that.”
Fans did not take Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams’ breakup well
Gosling might never have imagined that, along with dealing with a breakup, he might have had to deal with upset fans. He recalled in an interview that a couple of women approached him after he and McAdams called it quits.
The actor said, “Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street, and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs. They seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.”
Ryan Gosling is now with The Place Beyond the Pines co-star Eva Mendes and the two of them have two children together. Rachel McAdams has been in a relationship with screenwriter Jamie Linden since 2016 and the couple share two children.
Source: The Things
